11/12/2013

American voters say 52 – 44 percent that Obama is not honest and trustworthy, but they don't think that Obama knowingly deceived them on keeping their insurance plans

For the first time, the Quinnipiac Poll finds that most Americans don't view Obama as honest. The surprising thing to me is that most people view Obama as dishonest, but they don't believe him as being deceptive about whether people could keep their health insurance if they are happy with it. I don't understand why most people don't believe that Obama was deceiving them on keeping their insurance. For example, House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer has acknowledged:

That means the administration knew that more than 40 to 67 percent of those in the individual market would not be able to keep their plans, even if they liked them.

Yet President Obama, who had promised in 2009, "if you like your health plan, you will be able to keep your health plan," was still saying in 2012, "If [you] already have health insurance, you will keep your health insurance.". . .

Megan Kelly has a very powerful discussion available here.So is it only that Americans haven't followed the evidence here? From Quinnipiac University Poll (November 12, 2013):

Only 19 percent of American voters say the quality of care they and their families receive will improve in the next year because of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), while 43 percent say it will get worse and 33 percent say ACA won’t affect their health care.